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    H. Kent Bowen

    Professor Kent Bowen's current research and teaching is in the field of operations and technology management. He has served as course head for the required first year MBA course, Technology and Operations Management, two advanced level courses, Running and Growing... View Details

      David J. Collis

      For the past thirty years David J. Collis has been a professor at the Harvard Business School, where he was only the second ever full-time Adjunct Professor appointed. Previously, he was the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor, the MBA Class... View Details

        Jeffrey J. Bussgang

        General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners

        Former entrepreneur turned VC, HBS Senior Lecturer, author of three, dad of three, husband of one, civic leader, and fan of all Boston sports.

        Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a Senior... View Details

          Rohit Deshpande

          Rohit Deshpandé is a Baker Foundation Professor and Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching in the Advanced Management Program,... View Details

          Keywords: advertising; agribusiness; airline; banking; beauty products; beverage; financial services; home video games; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; tourism; video games
          • June 2005 (Revised May 2006)
          • Case

          Covisint (A): The Evolution of a B2B Marketplace

          By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
          Ford Motor Co., General Motors, and DaimlerChrysler--the three original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that dominated the automotive industry throughout the 20th century--launched Covisint in February 2000 as an industry supply chain exchange that would drive out cost... View Details
          Keywords: Business Model; Supply Chain Management; Business Startups; Management Teams; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; United States
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            Rajiv Lal

            Rajiv Lal, is the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. He is currently teaching an elective MBA course on the Business of Smart Connected Products/IOT. He has been responsible for the retailing curriculum and has served as the course... View Details

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            Creating Value in the Age of Distributed Capitalism

            By: Shoshana Zuboff
            Capitalism is a book of many chapters—and we are beginning a new one. Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet. When a majority of people want things that remain priced at a... View Details
            Keywords: Value Creation; Economic Systems; Transformation
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            • November 2011 (Revised June 2012)
            • Case

            The Big 3 Roar Back

            By: William W. George
            The "Big 3"—Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Chrysler—were all headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. Born between 1903 and 1928, they dominated the automobile industry in the U.S. for decades until they became complacent. In the 1970s they started losing share to... View Details
            Keywords: Production; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Industry Clusters; Competitive Strategy; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Michigan
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              Birth of a Salesman

              This book chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, the development of sales management transformed an economy populated by peddlers and... View Details

                Howard H. Stevenson

                Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

                Keywords: broadcasting; communications; computer; construction; financial services; forest products; health care; high technology; industrial goods; insurance industry; investment banking industry; manufacturing; paper; professional services; real estate; service industry; software; venture capital industry
                • 2004
                • Book

                Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America

                By: Walter A. Friedman
                This book chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, the development of sales management transformed an economy populated by peddlers and... View Details
                Keywords: Sales; Employees; Transformation; United States
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                  Steven C. Wheelwright

                  Steve Wheelwright is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School.

                  Following his retirement from HBS in 2006, he served with former Dean Kim B. Clark at BYU-Idaho and then from 2007-2015 he served as... View Details

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                  Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

                  Donald C. Burr People Express Airlines, 1980–1986 Thomas J. Burrell Burrell Advertising, 1971–2003 Robert N. Burt FMC Corporation, 1991–2001 Adolphus Busch Anheuser-Busch Brewery, 1880–1913 C Vincent A. Calarco Crompton Corporation, 1985–2004 Philip Caldwell View Details
                  • 14 Dec 2021
                  • Op-Ed

                  To Change Your Company's Culture, Don't Start by Trying to Change the Culture

                  tackle tough business challenges like reworking an outdated strategy or business model. The culture evolves as you do that important work.” Lorsch and McTague offered Ford as an example. When Allan Mullaly took over View Details
                  Keywords: by Michael Beer
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                  Hiring Organizations

                  Fierce Whiskers Distillery Fillip Fingo Africa FinTech Collective Fiserv Five Arrows Managers - Rothschild & Co Flyers Cocktail Co FoodCloud Forbright Bank Ford Motor Company ForgePoint Capital Forward Consumer Partners Founder Collective... View Details
                  • 09 May 2012
                  • Research & Ideas

                  Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

                  companies to continue to use what they already have in place, they pay far more than the full cost—because the company loses its competitiveness. As Henry Ford once put it, "If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will... View Details
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                  Marketing Faculty - Faculty & Research

                  Administration Ayelet Israeli Marvin Bower Associate Professor Michael T. Moynihan Lecturer of Business Administration Das Narayandas Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration V. Kasturi Rangan Baker Foundation Professor... View Details
                  • 24 Apr 2017
                  • Op-Ed

                  Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

                  automate its factories, Mulally borrowed $23.5 billion, convincing the Ford family to pledge its stock and the famous Ford Blue Oval as collateral. His bold move paid off. Unlike its Detroit competitors,... View Details
                  Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage
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                  About - Global

                  languages. 1957 MBA students create the International Business Club. 1955 Office of International Relations opens at HBS to coordinate activities of faculty abroad and improve foreigners’ time on campus. 1954 Ford Foundation awards a... View Details
                  • 18 Jul 2023
                  • Research & Ideas

                  Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

                  Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
                  Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology